Comment on Why so many people get triggered about ads nowadays?

• justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  … and you can’t even remove ads from your own channel. As a content creator I was happy to find a “disable advertisements” option in the settings menu - my channel isn’t monetized anyway, so getting rid of those super intrusive ads sounded like a win/win situation.

  Turns out this only disables “interest based” ads so my viewers still get shoved ads down their throats, just that those are entirely random now instead of custom-tailored towards their interests. Thanks, youtube - very helpful and exactly what I wanted. /s

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• UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  yeah, i dont know what id do without adblock on youtube.

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  • ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    And that is really sad. In the early days, I disabled my ad blocker for Youtube, as I tend to do with the websites I enjoy, but evidently I’ve had to re-enable it since to keep my sanity.

    As so many others, I don’t have a problem with passive or “docile” ads, but I do have a vendetta against intrusive anti-user experiences, which has led me to block ads and other kinds of annoyances /intrusions per default.

    The whole “need for more aggressive ads as result of adblockers” is a self fulfilling prophecy.

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    • Mane25@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Just be careful because just because ads aren’t intrusive doesn’t mean they don’t track you. If ads were hosted locally on a website and not part of a big ad network then ad-blockers would be pretty ineffective anyway.

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  • BilboTBaggin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    For even more blocking there’s a plugin called sponsorblock. It automatically skips marked sponsor segments in videos. The segments are user submitted so not all videos have em but it’s so great!

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